Spring cuff-button



(No Model.)

B. K. HAYNES.

SPRING CUFF BUTTON.

No. 373,401. Patented Nov. 15, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEFicE.

EDGAR K. HAYNES, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE FROST, GEORGEH. PHELPS, AND GEORGE A. FROST, ALL OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPRING CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,401, dated November15, 1887.

Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 228,829. (No model.)

To all 2071,0122 it may concern.- at one end by a loop, (d, the saidloop acting 50 Be it known that I, EDGAR K. HAYNES, of as aspring tonormally keep the legs aaapart. Boston, county of Suffolk, and State ofMas- Each leg a a at its free end may be provided sachusetts, haveinvented an Improvement in with a button, I), as shown in Fig. 2; or itmay 5 Spring Cuff-Holders, of which the following be simply bent topresent a rounded end, as

description, in connection with the accompanyshown in Fig. 3. 5 ingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on The leg a, as shown inFig. 2, is bent to form the drawings representing like parts. a loop,12, near its middle, the said loop being This invention has for itsobject to provide engaged, as herein shown, by one end of a a simple andefficient cuff-holder more espe chain or link, b adapted to engage theleg at,

cially adapted to be used with cuffs such as the said link in thispresentinstance engaging 6o worn by ladies and children. one of a seriesof corrugations or bends, b, Prior to my invention it has been customarymade in the leg a, to lock or maintain thesaid for ladies to securetheir ends by means of pins legs at the desired distance apart, for apur- 1 or other devices inserted through the sleeve pose to behereinafter described.

and cuff. This mode of securing cuffs is ob- In practice the legs a awill be inserted 6 jectionable, and it is the object of thisinventhrough button holes c 0, respectively, of the tion to provide aspring cuff-holder which may cuff c", and the loop a will be passedabout be compressed to permit of the easy insertion the stud of theusual cuff-button, B, or it may t of the cuff in the sleeve, the holderacting to be an ordinary collar-button, to maintain the expand the cuffwhen in its proper place in cuff-holder in position. 70 the sleeve, theexpansion of the said cuff by The wearer, when putting on the cuff,brings the said cuff-holder exerting a pressure on or the lower part ofthe cuff together, so as to against the interior of the surroundingsleeve permit it to be easily inserted in the sleeve, to retain the cuffsecurely in place. The exthe spring-holder at such time being C0111-pansive force of the cuff-holder may be adpressed. The cuff is theninserted in the 75 justed, according to the material of the dresssleeve, and when in the desired position the with which it is to beused, to hold the cuff in pressure upon the cuff is released and theplace without forming an objectionable outspring-holder expands, thusforcing outward 3o ward bulge on the sleeve or in other manner orexpanding that part of the cuff within the marring or destroying thesymmetry of the sleeve, the outward pressure of the cuff on 80 arm. theinside of the sleeve being sufficient to se- My invention thereforeconsists, essentially, curely maintain the cuff in the desired posiof aspring cuff-holder provided at its ends tion within the sleeve. \Vhenthe cuff has y with buttons to engage button-holes of the been pressedwith sufficient force against the cuff, substantially as will be setforth. sleeve to firmly maintain it in position, the 8 Other features ofmy invention will be link or chain 1), as shown, may be made toenpointed out in the claims at the end of this gage a corrugation orbend, If, in the leg a, to specification. look, as it were, the positionof the legs a a, Figure 1 shows a cuff provided with one therebypreventingsuch expansion of the cuff form of myimproved cuff-holder.Fig.2shows as to form an objectionable bulge in the sleeve. 0 thecud-holder detached; Fig. 3, a modified Referring to Fig. 5, I haveshown the springform of cuff-holder. Fig.4 shows a cuff proholder as asingle wire, (I, bent to form subvided with yet another modified form ofcuffstantially a semicircle, it having at each end holder, and Fig. 5 isa view of the cuff-holder a button, I), to enter the button-holes c c ofthe shown in Fig. 4. cuff. As shown in Fig. 1, oneleg, a, is shown 5Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, my improved as extended through thebutton-hole c from cuff-holder is therein shown as a piece of wire theoutside and the leg at through the buttonloent or shaped to leave twolegs, a a, united hole 0 from the inside of the cuff, and so, also,

in Fig. 4 one button b is inside the cuff, while the other is outside;but instead of the arrangement shown the said spring-holder may beeither entirely Within or on the outside of the said cuff, and so, also,the bent wire d may be made sufficiently large to nearly encircle thewrist or forearm of the wearer.

Myimproved spring cuffholder may be used with garments made of very finetexture without in the least disfiguring the arm.

I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a cuffholder consisting ofa spring bent into an approximately U shape, combined with a buttonattached to each end thereof, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a spring cuff-holdercomprising the legs a a, adapted to be inserted through holes in thecuff, and having a loop, a adapted to engage the stem or stud of acuff-button, to operate substantially as described. 1

3. As an improved article of manufacture,

a spring cuff-holder comprising the legs a a,

ton-hole of the cuff, substantially as described. 5

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subcribing witnesses.

EDGAR K. HAYNES.

\Witnesses: I

G. W. GREGORY, J. H. CHURCHILL.

